World War Two -1945 BAAG report on occupied Hong Kong – gas supply

Elizabeth Ride has sent a British Army Aid Group (BAAG) report from 1st March 1945, An Outline of Conditions in Occupied Hong Kong which was compiled in early 1945 for use by the Civil Affairs Committee which was to take on the rehabilitation of HK after the planned allied invasion.

HF: The report is lengthy so I am going to divide it up into separate articles. Here, gas supply…

IDJ has supplied this clip from a picture taken at Kai Tak showing the gasholder at Ma Tau Kok works which was presumably the target of the adjacent missed bomb splash fountain. Date: 8th December 1941.

This article was first posted on 14th November 2015.

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For general information about the Elizabeth Ride collection, her father Sir Lindsay Ride, and the British Army Aid group during WW2 a very useful introduction is through http://gwulo.com/node/13968